A-10 tournament diary: Day 4 in Brooklyn

» PREVIEW: Fordham will have hometown advantage against Dayton

Dayton fans woke up this morning hoping for the best and preparing for the worst — an approach they’ve needed all season. I asked fans in my Guess the Score Contest on Twitter how they would celebrate an A-10 championship.

“I’d be waiting to wake up from a dream,” one wrote.

“Burn a couch,” wrote another.

“Name my first kid Brady,” wrote another, referring the 3-point hero of Thursday, walk-on Brady Uhl.

I’ll head to the arena later this morning. It’s a wet day in Brooklyn. I even saw a few flurries outside my window in the Crown Heights neighborhood. I’ve been in an AirBnB studio apartment for three nights but will find a hotel room closer to the arena tonight or one near the airport if Dayton loses. Four years ago, Dayton Daily News columnist Tom Archdeacon and I couldn’t find a flight home the next day from New York as we tried to change our itinerary after Dayton’s quarterfinal loss to Saint Louis. We rented a van — that was all that was available — and drove home to Ohio rather than waiting two days for our scheduled flight.

Archdeacon is here again and wrote about Dayton walk-on Brady Uhl on Thursday and Wayne grad Darius Quisenberry, a fifth-year guard at Fordham, on Friday. Hopefully, there are more fun stories to tell today.